THAT'S A WRAP - Quentin Tarantino at work on set

QUENTIN TARANTINO'S first film in six years, Kill Bill, has taken so long to film and grown so much in scope and length that is is likely to become two films, according to one of its stars, DAVID CARRADINE.

"Shooting has been going on so long, with Quentin continuing to write scenes, that plans are afoot to turn Kill Bill into two 90-minute features that would be released within five weeks of each other," the Kung-Fu star said.

If so, the film would not be ready in time for its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, as was orignally intended, but Carradine feels that would not matter. "It's a brilliant marketing plan," he said. "The first film would end with a cliffhanger so that everyone would want to see the second half."

Carradine, who landed his role after WARREN BEATTY dropped out of the project, spent three months with Tarantino and co-stars UMA THURMAN, DARYL HANNAH and LUCY LIU on location in Beijing.

"And then we spent months filming in and around Los Angeles," he said. "This was the first time Quentin had shot a film outside Los Angeles and he said, ‘If I'm going to shoot outside the city, let's go to China'."

Carradine described Tarantino as "brilliant, totally crazy, but totally sane at the same time."